TOLD BY THEIR CLOTHES

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 6

TOLD BY THEIR CLOTHES

WOMEN OF ALL COUNTRIES

"I was having lunch, with a friend at a.famous London hotel the:other day, and ,we began to guess the nationalities of persons at nearby tables from their clothes. We checked up our answers afterwards with the head waiter. I won 'almost every time, and this is why," says an English writer.

American women are largCfboned, They always wear very smartly-cut but almost severe "clothes, which accontuato the width of the shoulders. Their clothes would look freakish on anyone else. Their shoes are always long and narrow, and rather masculine. They wear light brogues whenever possible.

French women are small. They almost invariably wear Vlack and white. Their feet are very small, and their shoes have tho highest hools obtainable.

German women are thick-set. They usually wear very quiet clothes, absolutely free from any trace .of exaggeration in cut or material.

Spanish and Italian women have beautifully curved figures,, and are not afraid of wearing bright colours. Thero is always a sunny gaiety about their clothes.

•English women _. aro the ■ hardest to distinguish by their clothes alone. Once any woman who looked really dowdy was an English woman, butnow a famous Paris fashion . expert says: "The English woman is the: smartest woman1 in [the world. She started with nothing, but now she dresses with the easy grace of an American, the neatness of a French woman, the good taste of a German, and the sure coloursense of- an Italiari."- ,